John Nickerson
Updated 10:11 pm, Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Stamford Advocate


Hector Valle, 48, an illegal immigrant convicted of molesting a young family member in 2006 and subsequently deported, was charged Tuesday with violating his probation and will likely face federal charges of illegally re-entering the country Photo: Contributed Photo

STAMFORD -- An illegal immigrant convicted of molesting a young family member in 2006 and subsequently deported, was charged Tuesday with violating probation and will likely face federal charges of illegally re-entering the country.

Hector Valle, 48, a Guatemalan national who was living at 23 Quintard Terrace in Stamford, was held overnight by police in lieu of $100,000 bond and federal officials placed an immigration detainer on him to prevent his release.

At his arraignment at state Superior Court in Stamford on Wednesday, Judge Thomas Colin raised Valle's bond to $150,000 and assigned him a public defender. Valle made a pro-forma not-guilty plea to violation of probation, and Colin scheduled him toreturn to court on March 20.

Police Capt. Richard Conklin said after city officers received information that Valle had returned to Stamford, late Tuesday afternoon they went to 23 Quintard Terrace to find him. He was taken into custody without incident.

According to his arrest warrant, Valle appeared before Judge James Bingham on March 24, 2006, and was convicted of third-degree sexual assault and illegal sexual contact with a victim under the age of 16. Bingham sentenced him to three years in prison, a seven-year suspended sentence and 10 years of probation. Valle could be made to serve the remainder of the sentence if he violated probation.

Valle was released after serving his prison term by the state Department of Correction in March 2009 and was deported to Guatemala that April, his warrant said.

According to the warrant, under the terms of probation Valle was supposed to keep his probation officer informed of his whereabouts and participate in drug counseling programs, which he did not do. Those on probation also agree not to break any laws as part of the conditions of their release.

Conklin said that returning to the United States also represents a probation violation.

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